Previous: Docker And Kubernetes Cluster on Power with RHEL7 – Part 7: kubernetes SSL Configuration – Optional Here are some k ubernetes cluster terminology that we need to understand, before we start to deploy and manage workload to this...

A new update release for the 9.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This version provides many package updates including: GCC provides:
Fix for eigen hitting ICE following invalid register assignment . Fix for...

Big News from SuperComputing 2016 this morning! I am excited to share with you that IBM and NVIDIA teamed up to announce the release of PowerAI, the world's fastest deep learning enterprise solution. PowerAI is an optimized, integrated offering...

The Machine Learning and Deep Learning project in IBM Systems is a broad effort to build a co-optimized stack of hardware and software to make IBM Power Systems the best platform to develop and deploy cognitive applications. In addition to bringing to...

While creating configs, I always get asked what the power consumption would be for the specified devices. For some of the IBM hardware, we have the System Planning Tool available, but for other IBM hardware we don't. Would it be possible to add the Power...

1.Overview LPAR2RRD is a freeware product that collects performance data from HMCs and client LPARs to generate historical usage statistics. The ‘HMC only’ collection method (phase 1) is agentless and only requires connectivity to the HMC. The...

The new IBM SDK for Linux on Power 1.10 provides integration with the IBM POWER Functional Simulator , a POWER8 and POWER9 simulator that can be installed in any x86_64/amd64 system. The simulator instantiates a Power virtual machine to which...

A new update release for the 10.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This release provides new features and many package updates, including: POWER9 tuned libraries. The GNU C Library provides:
POWER9 implies...

ISSUE: During RHEL 7.x bare metal installation on POWER8 Systems, petitboot is unable to continue stage2 due to not finding the media device. The baremetal installation fails for RHEL installation using DVD or USB images. The reason is...

The Machine Learning and Deep Learning project in IBM Systems is a broad effort to build a co-optimized stack of hardware and software to make IBM Power Systems the best platform to develop and deploy cognitive applications. In addition to bringing to...

I am pleased to announce a major update to the deep learning frameworks available for OpenPOWER as software “distros” (distributions) that are as easily installable as ever using the Ubuntu system installer. Significant updates to Key Deep...

In my previous blog entry I introduced a new Power Systems and OpenPOWER L and LC Positioning Guide and mentioned there are additional deliverables to go with it. They are now online. Skip to the end to see...

Our first Positioning Guide The scale-out line of IBM Power System servers is growing and it doesn't look like things will slow down as more partners join the OpenPOWER Foundation. With all this interaction has come some exciting new...

A new update release for the 10.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This release provides many package updates, including: GCC 6.2 Glibc 2.24 Binutils 2.27 GDB 7.11 Support for Ubuntu 16.04. GCC provides fixes for complex...

The IBM Power System S822LC for High Performance Computing (8335-GTB) was designed to provide exceptional accelerated computing performance. As all Power System LC servers, the S822LC was co-designed with...

My colleague in Lab Services, Ben Swinney, recently configured the Virtual HMC on his Apple Macbook. He was kind enough to write up his experience, so that others could also run the vHMC on their Mac. Me included! You can find Ben’s instructions...

IBM PowerVC now supports Hitachi (HDS) storage. The support is with PowerVC 1.3.1 FP2, which is now GA. There are limitations with the support, which come from HDS' OpenStack cinder driver. Take a look at the PowerVC KC, which lists...

A new update release for the 7.1 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This is a maintenance release and contains the following fixes: The GNU C Library provides:
Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer...

Unfortunately our Veritas Clusters are rather new, and when setting them up we didn't have a clear plan as to how things where to be laid out. This means that we have far to many Resource Groups making the linking of the resources difficult. Some details...

So we've built a Symantec Cluster Server (VCS), but we are not happy with the resource names. Maybe its not really clear what they are for, but with a simple edits of a file we can change all that. The /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/main.cf contains all...

Continuing with my cluster builds, but before the true cluster configuration is done, I need to setup and service address. This is the address that the application requires to move between the nodes, this could be so that you login via one know address, or to...

Today after I getting all the filesystem mount points configured and set up in a cluster I was was asked change them. Annoying but not something I was initially sure how to do. Little bit of searching and clarification of the VCS commands this is what I was...

So time ago, I wrote a document on how to install VCS on IBM Power. At the time I was with the IBM Redbooks team writing a number of publications and found some of the information that I needed a bit short. Since then I've not had a lot of opportunities to...

by Jeff Scheel, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Linux Technical Strategy Two years ago this month, I published my first blog about the Linux on Power strategic shift from big endian to little endian, titled Just the FAQs about Little Endian , and I still get...

Overview IBM Power System’s Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs) provide interfaces to monitor utilization of physical and virtual resources on the Power system . These are REST API and GUI interfaces for P erformance and C apacity M onitoring or PCM....

I am pleased to announce that several major deep learning frameworks are now available on the Power platform, as "distros" (distributions) that are easily installable using the Ubuntu system installer. Deep learning, or the use of multi-layer neural...

1. Introduction Radar charts allow a good way to compare elements of a dimension in a function of several metrics. This make them useful for seeing which variable have similar values or if there are any outlier amongst each variable. Radar charts are...

The IBM Software Development Kit for Linux on Power (SDK) provides two related tools, Source Code Advisor (SCA) and the Feedback Directed Program Restructuring tool (FDPR), that implement feedback-directed, post-link program...

A new update release for the 7.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This is a maintenance release and contains a series of fixes: Fix installation issues on RHEL 7. OpenSSL provides fixes for CVE-2016-0701 and...

A new update release for the 9.0 series of the IBM Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power is now available. This release contains a lot of fixes and features: Golang for ppc64le with Go 1.6 provided. GCC provides:
Fix for PowerPC ISA 2.07 is...

5 Things You Should Know about IBM Watson: IBM Watson is made of a cluster of IBM Power Systems servers The cluster also contains additional I/O, network and cluster controller nodes IBM Watson is designed to find insight, discover breakthroughts, and predict...

The residency team is pleased to announce the publication of the Implementing an Optimized Analytics Solution on IBM Power Systems, SG24-8291 publication which positions IBM Analytics and Big Data solutions with a well-defined and documented deployment...

The residency team is pleased to announce the publication of the IBM Reference Architecture for Genomics, Power Systems Edition, SG24-8279 publication which introduces the IBM Reference Architecture for Genomics, IBM Power Systems edition on IBM POWER8....

The residency team is pleased to announce the draft release of the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror v7.2 for AIX Updates, SG24-8278 publication which provides details on the latest features and updates of IBM PowerHA SystemMirror v7.2. Table of contents Chapter...

April 12, 2016 marks the 5th announcement of IBM Power Systems based on the POWER8 processor technology. Here are my picks for the 5 Things to Know about the announcement, but be sure to keep an eye at the online resources as the announcement...

This does not happen to often, an actual item about IBM AND Google: IBM's Power chips hit the big time at Google Found it here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3052951/cloud-computing/ibms-power-chips-hit-the-big-time-at-google.ht...

Sifting through boxes of 3.5 inch floppy diskettes - some of questionable provenance in a dusty basement. Gingerly packing up what I consider to be the holy trinity of Commodore Amiga computers - A1000, A2000, A3000 - all in some state...

IBM Systems technical events are THE place to build your skills, gain technology insights and grow your professional network. Feedback from last year’s events revealed a strong desire for local training. So in 2016, IBM has launched IBMTechU Comes&n...